FOOTNOTES:
[9] At Denison House, Vauxhall Bridge Road, on June 11th, 1919.
[10] “Raymond,” p. 86.
[11] ibid., p. 357.
[12] ibid., p. 235.
[13] ibid., p. 166.
[14] “Spiritualism,” p. 74.
[15] “On the Threshold of the Unseen,” p. 33.
[16] ibid., p. 240.
[17] “Spiritualism,” p. 172.
[18] “Raymond,” p. 357.
Chapter V
TABLE PHENOMENA
Table-turning, as we meet it in literature, belongs to the older class of parlour games. Sir W. F. Barrett quotes the testimony of Delitzsch that it was practised in Jewish circles in the seventeenth century: “the table springs up even when laden with many hundred-weight.” Zebi, in 1615, defended the practice as not due to magic, but to the power of God, “for we sing to the table sacred psalms and songs, and it can be no devil’s work where God is remembered.”